Equality for all: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, shakes hands with Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan, right, at an event to launch the “Updated Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent’s Health” Saturday at United Nations headquarters. (AP/Bryan R. Smith)The United States and human rights organizations sharply criticized China’s repression and imprisonment of women’s rights activists ahead of a high-level U.N. meeting Sunday to promote women’s equality. The session will be co-chaired by China’s President Xi Jinping.China hosted the last major U.N. women’s conference in Beijing in 1995, and Xi has been proclaiming the importance of women’s human rights. …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
